Tears Song Contest 2017

Tears Song Contest 2017 was be the inaugural edition of the Tears Song Contest, a song contest exclusively allowing sad and/or slow songs from all around Maia. The contest is an idea of the Lussantian national broadcaster, the FLBS, seeing the success of thematic song contests such as Christmas in Maia and Turbovision. It took place in Winter 2017.

Rules
The rules of the contest, as the FLBS unveiled them, are similar to the basic Maia Song Contest rules. A maximum number of 26 countries will be put in place, preventing a Semi-Final from being held.

To be able to compete, you need to have participated at least in one Maia Song Contest or one if its spin-offs.

The song must respect those following rules :
 * Being of a sad and/or slow nature
 * Having less than 300 million views on YouTube
 * Not having previously competed in Maia Song Contest or one of its spin-offs
 * Not having previously competed in the Eurovision Song Contest or Turkvizyon

Location
The first edition of the Tears Song Contest will take place in the Krćanskí Acùřancí Arena, located in the city of Krća, the capital city of Lussantia and its 3rd largest city. It is also the capital city of Slavania, one of the 3 "autonomous communities" of Lussantia.

Bids
Host venue

Show
1 Ostana and the Otaku Republic failed to vote before the deadline, thus, their points were divided by 2.

The "23rd Country"
On 5 February 2017, the FLBS announced that a "23rd Country" is gonna take part in the contest, adding itself to the 22 first participating countries. The communication director of the broadcaster then held a guess show on one hour, and released a shortlist of 6 possible countries :
 * Fronezenchya
 * Kiznrland
 * Metrocka
 * Zarta
 * Zvorrhybnnia
 *  Zycantia

Other countries

 * Björnska - On 21 January 2017, the national broadcaster Björnsk Television (BTV) announced that they would not participate in the event, with the channel's executive producer stating "We wish to focus on other projects at this time, however we hope that the contest is a success". Despite the country's non-participation, the event will still be broadcast live on BTV2.


 * Klapaucius - The Klapaucian broadcaster, KTV, expressed its interest in a potential Klapauciuan participation. They had originally selected Sandra Lyng to compete in the event however on 16 January 2017, the broadcaster withdrew their participation in the contest. On February 5, however, KTV said "fuck it we're back in".